Hezbollah made no secret that it was using the Quran and Islam as justifications for its attack on Israel Sunday morning.
The Israeli media mentioned this, but I could not find anything about this on the New York Times site, or the Washington Post, or AP, or Reuters.
For example, the second Hezbollah statement about its attack was prefaced with part of a Quranic verse (32:22): "We shall take vengeance upon the criminals." In other words, this was a vengeance operation, and had nothing to do with land or Gaza. To the media, it is assumed that Muslims are immature beings who cannot stop themselves from attacks on their enemies when their honor is at stake, but they never mention the religious justifications for their actions, because they don't want to be called Islamophobic and they also don't want to claim that they know the Quran better than Hezbollah leaders.
Even more obvious, and striking in how it wasn't mentioned in the mainstream media I checked, was that the failed attack was launched on Arbaeen, a Shiite holiday. In fact, Hezbollah named the attack "Operation Arbaeen Day." Whenever anyone attacks a Muslim on Ramadan, they say how disgusting it is to attack on an Islamic holy month, but they attack on Ramadan - and on other of their holidays - all the time.
One of the myths that the media and "experts" insist on is that Muslim attacks on Israel are only about land, or "occupation," or "supporting Palestinians."
They really hate to mention any Islamic religious justification for their attacks, even when the attackers themselves say that. Because they want to blame Israel for all unrest, and Israel cannot change the Muslim calendar.
So the Islamic component of Iran, Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas and Islamic Jihad attacks on Israel get swept under the rug.
Which is exactly what happened on Sunday.
